Cavallino Classic 2013 – Report and Photos

The Cavallino Classic 2013 was staged January 22-27 at the Breakers Resort Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Celebrating its 22nd anniversary in 2013, this six-day gathering for Ferrari owners and enthusiasts saw participants and their 400 Ferraris attending from the U.S. and Europe.

The first event of the gathering is the Cavallino Classic Competition, a two-day track meet at Palm Beach International Raceway. A select field of competition Ferraris, Maseratis, Alfa Romeos and Bugattis tackled the 11-turn, 2.043 mile race track, including a pair of Ferrari 250 GTOs and a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa.

Yet, as always, the high point of the Cavallino Classic is the Concorso d’Eleganza on the front lawn of the Breakers Resort Hotel, on Saturday, January 26, 2013. A field of 150 immaculate Ferrari automobiles were expertly judged for originality and elegance, vying for Class Awards and the important Major Cups, along with the Cavallino Cup for Best in Show. In honor of Sergio Pininfarina, the 2013 event had a display class of Ferraris both designed and custom built by Pinin Farina, to 1966.

The Best of Show Competition Ferrari award at the 2013 Cavallino Classic was presented to the 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC (s/n 0698MDTR) of J.W. Marriott, Jr., while the Best of Show Gran Turismo Ferrari award was given to the 1955 Ferrari 375 Plus Pinin Farina Cabriolet (s/n 0488AM) of Wayne Golomb.

The finale for the 2013 Cavallino Classic is ‘Classic Sports Sunday’ at Mar-a-Lago, the Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach. This year’s Classic Sports Sunday featured Rolls-Royce, as a field of 120 automobiles were displayed on the grounds, including American, Italian, French, British and German classics. Best of Show was awarded to the 1946 Talbot T26 Cabriolet by Figoni and Falaschi owned by Jim Patterson.

Similar to Cavallino 2012 and Cavallino 2011, photographer Alessandro Gerelli documented this year’s Cavallino Classic, offering the following pictures of the Ferrari festival in Florida.